Sandridge Barton - Blanc de Noir 2020

This is the first sparkling wine in our Sandridge Barton range, and it has certainly hit the ground running, winning a 'Master' medal at the Global Sparkling Wine Awards 2023 and is one of only 7 wines to achieve this top award out of 230 entries.

Raspberry gold in colour, with delicate aromas of rhubarb, fresh orchard fruits and cooked apple. The palate is dry, with delicate tart red berry flavours and subtle autolytic characters of baked bread and puff pastry. This leads you into a long finish lifted by the ripe and fruit-driven acidity.

Our original home on the banks of the river Dart was on the Sharpham estate in South Devon. Planted in 1981, we were one of the early pioneers of English viticulture in the UK, understanding varieties capable of ripening in our ultra cool and temperate climate in the West of the UK. Our famous iron rich red soils and green rolling hills soils are a mix of limestone and volcanic soils and it's hard to believe they were once on a tropical seabed on the equator between 250 and 400 million years ago!

Made with 100% Pinot Noir from the best parcels, it's fermented naturally with indigenous yeasts in second fill French oak barrels where it spends a further 10 months on gross lees. We bottled this wine for second fermentation in June 2021, where it spent a further 18 months on the lees in bottle. We disgorged this wine with no dosage added, so it comes in at 0 g/l of residual sugar.

We bottled this wine for second fermentation in June 2021, where it spent a further 18 months on the lees in bottle. We disgorged this wine with no dosage added, so it comes in at 0 g/l of residual sugar.